Cup (Imperial): is a unit of volume used in the imperial system, which was historically used in the United Kingdom and its former colonies. Though it has been largely replaced by the metric system in most of these countries, the imperial cup is still recognized and sometimes appears in older recipes and documents.
1 imperial cup = 284.131 milliliters (mL), which makes it larger than both the U.S. customary cup (236.588 mL) and the metric cup (250 mL). Cup (Metric): in the metric system, the cup is not an officially standardized unit of volume, as the metric system primarily relies on liters and milliliters for volume measurements. However, the metric cup is commonly used in cooking and recipes in some metric-using countries as a convenient unit for measuring ingredients.
It is commonly abbreviated as "c" or "cup" and is equal 250 milliliters 0.25 litters. In some countries (i.e. Japan, The Netherlands) cup's volume is slightly different.
1 imperial cup = 284.131 milliliters (mL), which makes it larger than both the U.S. customary cup (236.588 mL) and the metric cup (250 mL). Cup (Metric): in the metric system, the cup is not an officially standardized unit of volume, as the metric system primarily relies on liters and milliliters for volume measurements. However, the metric cup is commonly used in cooking and recipes in some metric-using countries as a convenient unit for measuring ingredients.
It is commonly abbreviated as "c" or "cup" and is equal 250 milliliters 0.25 litters. In some countries (i.e. Japan, The Netherlands) cup's volume is slightly different.
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